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WASHINGTON — American Indian tribes in California’s Klamath Basin praised Monday’s decision by the United States Supreme Court not to hear the Klamath Project irrigators’ Fifth Amendment water rights case, Baley v. United States.

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WASHINGTON — The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe won a victory in a federal district court on Friday in its battle with the Trump administration to retain its tribal land in trust.

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WASHINGTON — On Friday, a federal judge ruled in favor of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in its battle with the Trump administration to retain its tribal land in trust.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A team of researchers from three leading universities released a proposal for fairly allocating $8 billion earmarked for tribal governments under Title V of the CARES Act.  

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Lending support of the Mashpee Wampanoag in its fight to preserve its land in trust status, Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), along with other members of Congress, filed a bicameral, bipartisan amicus brief with the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON — A government plan to disestablish the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s reservation has been put on a temporary hold after lawyers for the U.S. Dept. of Interior agreed it would refrain from taking the Tribe’s land out of trust for 45 days.  

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WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of 18 Congressional members have sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell demanding an immediate vote on House legislation that would protect the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe from a federal government effort to disestablish their reservation. 

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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The U.S. Dept. of the Interior has granted a request by Michigan’s Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians to move 157.5 acres of the tribe’s land in Acme Township into federal trust.  

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WASHINGTON— Both Democratic Party presidential candidates, former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), released statements in support of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s fight to retain its trust land.

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WASHINGTON — The Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians this week got a win in a federal court case that’s part of the Tribe’s 85-year battle to win federal recognition.

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